Michael Heizer Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.”

“I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.”

“The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.”

“I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to provide a frame of reference that wasn't the usual frame of reference of the New York art world and Europe.”

“The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.”